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YES: THE COMPLETE ATLANTIC STUDIO ALBUMS

The Progressive Rockers’ Legendary Atlantic Years Revisited With 13-CD Boxed Set Featuring Remastered and Expanded Versions Of The Band’s Studio Albums

Includes The U.S. Debut Of Remastered And Expanded Version Of Big Generator

The Collection will be available on December 2nd internationally, and on December 24th in the USA.

YES, the most successful and influential progressive rock band in the world, will celebrate its prolific tenure at Atlantic Records with a new boxed set that contains all 12 of the studio albums they recorded with the label. Each one features the remastered sound and bonus tracks that originally appeared in 2003 and 2004, when Rhino’s reissued the band’s catalog.

The collection spans nearly 20 years of music over the course of 13 CDs and includes the albums that earned Yes an international following and helped the English group sell more than 30 million (and counting) albums. Roger Dean, who illustrated many of Yes’ iconic album covers through the years, created the new artwork for the clamshell box that houses the music, making this set instantly recognizable to any Yes fan. The set also marks the American debut of the expanded and remastered version of Big Generator, which was previously available only in Japan.

COMPLETE ATLANTIC STUDIO ALBUMS 1969-1987 will be released for a suggested list price of $74.98. A digital version will also be available.

About YES in 1969-1987

Bassist Chris Squire, singer Jon Anderson and drummer Bill Bruford started Yes in 1968. The following year, the group released its self-titled debut, mixing original material with totally reworked versions of song by groups like The Byrds and the Beatles.

The band’s sound evolved quickly as its songs became more ambitious, adopting a more symphonic approach to the music and exploring more enigmatic themes with its lyrics. Yes’ dynamic sound resonated with fans around the world during the 1970s, when the group enjoyed both critical and commercial success with a string of now-classic albums: The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close to the Edge (1972), the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973), Relayer (1974) and Going for the One (1977).

During that time the band featured Squire, Anderson, Bruford, guitar virtuoso Steve Howe and drummer Alan White. Several different keyboardists also played on those albums, including Tony Kaye, Rick Wakeman and Patrick Moraz.

In the decade that followed, Yes’s success continued to grow as its sound and line-up continued to change over the course of three albums. Singer Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes of the Buggles replaced Anderson and Wakeman for one album, Drama (1980), which boasted a heavier sound.

Anderson and longtime keyboardist Tony Kaye both returned in 1983, appearing on the immensely successful album 90125, which also featured the debut of guitarist Trevor Rabin. The record produced the band’s first #1 song, ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart,’ plus several other radio hits, ‘It Can Happen,’ ‘Changes’ and ‘Leave It.’ An instrumental track from the album, ‘Cinema’ would go on to win the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1985.

Big Generator, the band’s final album with Atlantic Records, was released in 1987. Until now, the remastered and expanded version was only available in Japan. The album produced two radio hits, ‘Love Will Find a Way’ and ‘Rhythm of Love.’ Several versions of those songs are among the album’s five bonus tracks, including edited and extended versions of ‘Love Will Find a Way,’ and three different mixes of ‘Rhythm of Love.’

ALBUMS

YES
1. Beyond And Before
2. I See You
3. Yesterday And Today
4. Looking Around
5. Harold Land
6. Every Little Thing
7. Sweetness
8. Survival

FRAGILE
1. Roundabout
2. Cans And Brahms
3. We Have Heaven
4. South Side Of The Sky
5. Five Per Cent For Nothing
6. Long Distance Runaround
7. The Fish(Schindleria Praematurus)
8. Mood For A Day
9. Heart Of The Sunrise

BONUS TRACKS
10. America
11. Roundabout (Early rough mix)

CLOSE TO THE EDGE
1. Close To The Edge
i. The Solid Time Of Change
ii. Total Mass Retain
iii. I Get Up I Get Down
iv. Seasons Of Man
2. And You And I
i. Cord Of Life
ii. Eclipse
iii. The Preacher The Teacher
iv. Apocalypse
3. Siberian Khatru

BONUS TRACKS
9. Love Will Find a Way (Edited Version)
10. Love Will Find a Way (Extended Version)
11. Rhythm of Love (Dance to the Rhythm Mix)
12. Rhythm of Love (Move to the Rhythm Mix)
13. Rhythm of Love (The Rhythm of Dub)

my best yes day was when i won a pair of front row seats and got a bass guitar signed by all the members of the band (which i still own and have treasured for the last thirty years) on the 90125 tour. i have since experienced every line up of the band ,together and solo and will continue to do so as long as they will have me. thanks for the incredible span of music that i and millions of others have enjoyed over the past 40+years ! The box set is on the top of my christmas list !

The past few weeks have been massive for Yes fans across the world!! The reissues are simply amazing. The first one off “the shelf” the High Vibration box set just recently released in Japan and no doubt available elsewhere, and now “The Complete Studio Albums” 13cd’s and an extra 66 tracks, all in all a total of 29 cd’s!!
Talk about over the top!! Although i haven’t had a look at the “High Vibration” box set, it will be interesting to see if there are extras and the packaging is the same, although the Japanese version will be more expensive
one thing i enjoy they always have lyrics, and generally speaking most times there are “bonus” tracks. Can’t wait too for the “Close To The Edge” cd/bluray edition, incredible

Yes has been an inspiration to me and my family: I was a late Yes bloomer; 1st seeing them in 1983…but I caught up and saw them every chance I could after. My son’s 1st concert was at age 6 during the Yesymphonic tour at The Artpark in Lewiston, NY. He is now a freshman in college and a piano major. He has seen Yes with me 6 times altogether. As I am a music teacher we often have great conversations about the music of Yes. If you are reading this you already know; those who haven’t heard the music of Yes have truly missed out on something very unique and special. Every concert w/ Jon Anderson was like a religious experience for me (& I am agnostic!) What a wonderful voice! Of all the things that I have seen and heard, The music of Yes live w/ Jon Anderson and particularly with Rick Wakeman stands as some of the most beautiful and wonderful sounds and sights of my life.

With a number of recent deluxe and super deluxe edition albums, Thin Lizzy “Thunder & Lightning”, Ten Years
After” “Recorded Live” Humble Pie “Performance Rockin’ The Fillmore, The Who’s 4disc box set in 5.1, and now Yes’s classic “Close To The Edge”, the definitive edition CD/Bluray set. All those years ago 40 to be exact,
only 3 tracks on the original album, and now the ultimate. It’s incredible to have 6 stunning versions of C.T.T.E
and the many extras inclusive. If you are a huge fan like myself, the last few weeks in the “Yes” camp have been massive, i could continue the superlatives and also well timed for the fans the latest edition of Prog
magazine a few “pages’ on the album well worth a copy, great stuff